Sol 6.1

  1. مَولى المُغيرَةِ لا جادَتكَ غادِيَةٌ

    مِن رَحمَةِ اللَهِ ما جادَت غَواديها

    Al-Mughirah's client, may no morning cloud shower you

    with God's mercy, so long as its morning clouds pour.

  2. مَزَّقتَ مِنهُ أَديماً حَشوُهُ هِمَمٌ

    في ذِمَّةِ اللَهِ عاليها وَماضيها

    You tore his skin, filled with aspirations;

    the lofty and steadfast among them are in God's keeping.

  3. طَعَنتَ خاصِرَةَ الفاروقِ مُنتَقِماً

    مِنَ الحَنيفَةِ في أَعلى مَجاليها

    You stabbed al-Faruq's flank, seeking vengeance

    upon the upright faith in the loftiest of its manifestations.

  4. فَأَصبَحَت دَولَةُ الإِسلامِ حائِرَةً

    تَشكو الوَجيعَةَ لَمّا ماتَ آسيها

    So the realm of Islam became bewildered,

    lamenting its pain when its healer died.

  5. مَضى وَخَلَّفَها كَالطَودِ راسِخَةً

    وَزانَ بِالعَدلِ وَالتَقوى مَغانيها

    He departed and left it firm as a mountain,

    and adorned its dwellings with justice and piety.

  6. تَنبو المَعاوِلُ عَنها وَهيَ قائِمَةٌ

    وَالهادِمونَ كَثيرٌ في نَواحيها

    Pickaxes rebound from it while it stands,

    and many are the destroyers throughout its reaches.

  7. حَتّى إِذا ما تَوَلّاها مُهَدِّمُها

    صاح الزَوالُ بِها فَاِندَكَّ عاليها

    Until, when its destroyer took charge of it,

    ruin cried out against it, and its heights collapsed.

  8. واهاً عَلى دَولَةٍ بِالأَمسِ قَد مَلَأَت

    جَوانِبَ الشَرقِ رَغداً مِن أَياديها

    Alas for a realm that only yesterday had filled

    the regions of the East with plenty from its bounty!

  9. كَم ظَلَّلَتها وَحاطَتها بِأَجنِحَةٍ

    عَن أَعيُنِ الدَهرِ قَد كانَت تُواريها

    How often it shaded them and sheltered them with wings

    that hid them from the eyes of Time!

  10. مِنَ العِنايَةِ قَد ريشَت قَوادِمُها

    وَمِن صَميمِ التُقى ريشَت خَوافيها

    Their primary feathers were fashioned from providential care,

    and their secondary feathers from the very essence of piety.

  11. وَاللَهِ ما غالَها قِدماً وَكادَ لَها

    وَاِجتَثَّ دَوحَتَها إِلّا مَواليها

    By God, none treacherously destroyed it of old or schemed against it,

    or uprooted its spreading tree, except its own clients.

  12. لَو أَنَّها في صَميمِ العُربِ قَد بَقِيَت

    لَما نَعاها عَلى الأَيّامِ ناعيها

    Had it remained among Arabs of pure lineage,

    no herald through the ages would have announced its death.

  13. يا لَيتَهُم سَمِعوا ما قالَهُ عُمَرٌ

    وَالروحُ قَد بَلَغَت مِنهُ تَراقيها

    Ah, if only they had heard what Umar said,

    as his soul had reached his collarbones:

  14. لا تُكثِروا مِن مَواليكُم فَإِنَّ لَهُم

    مَطامِعاً بَسَماتُ الضَعفِ تُخفيها

    "Do not multiply your clients, for they have

    ambitions that smiles of weakness conceal."